wisdom Quotes

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Delay is preferable to error.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.